Getting In the Christmas Spirit

We went on our annual tree cutting trip the weekend after Thanksgiving.  I think this year might be my favorite!

Look how beautiful it was!  No one is even wearing a winter coat?!

All I need is a little shipping tape and some postage

The beautiful pointesetta tree at work

Macy dressed up for her Christmas Concert.  Nothing like a bunch of 4 year olds singing Away In A Manger to get you in the spirit.  It was so sweet.

Morgan is enjoying Tenor Sax.  She had her first concert of the year this week and did great.  She also had a piano piece.  She had a piano recital today too, but I haven't downloaded the pics yet.

Happy Thanksgiving from Michigan

 We spent Thanksgiving up north at the cabin. We were outside most of Thursday tossing the football and soaking up the sun.  When we woke up in the morning on Friday, there was a foot of snow on the ground!  We took our family pics for our Christmas card so I included those here too.

The girls weren't real happy about wearing hats and coats on a 60 degree day.  The lengths one goes to for a good Christmas card photo;)

Definitely needed those hats the next day!

On our way up, we stopped by and picked up Grammy to take her out to lunch.  We stopped by Avant Garden to pick up some flowers (for an arrangement I wanted to make for Thanksgiving) and Morgan fell in love with all of the photo-opps.  Here are a couple of her favs...

Here is the (kind of odd) arrangement.  It is inside a head of cabbage.  Turned out ok, but I loved that it was homemade.

I used a pie plate and upside down bowl as a "vase".  Up north, you work with what you've got;)

We spent the morning making Oreo Turkeys ...

So ugly, they're cute!

Trick or Treat

I'm not exactly sure what you would call Morgan - a goth punk rocker maybe?  Our neighbors were blown away - they didn't ever recognize her - so out of character for her - hee hee.  Brooke was a bee - very fitting considering we call her "B" - lol.  And Macy was Buzz from Toy Story.

Our Jack-o-lanterns on the front porch

Updates Galore....

You know it's been too long since you've posted when you can't remember the log-in information - OMG!  I've been meaning to post pics for the last 6 weeks and just haven't found the time.  Soooo, these go back a ways.  Thank YOU Beth and Ashley for a great weekend.  It was so nice to catch-up with some dedicated adult time:)